Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University to Repatriate Objects to Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma
June 18, 2025
June 18, 2025
WASHINGTON, June 18 (TNSFR) -- The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, intends to repatriate 221 cultural items. This action, taken in accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, follows the museum's determination that these unassociated funerary objects and sacred objects have a cultural affiliation with Indian Tribes as specified in a notice (Docket No. NPS-WASO-NAGPRA-NPS0040410). These determinations . . .